Integrated Grammar Practice For Class 10

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate verb form. This grammar exercise tests your understanding of various tense forms. Sentence completion tasks like these routinely appear in Class 10 English grammar question papers.

A mechanical arm that ……1….. (picks / is picking / pick / has picked) 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt ……2……. (win / wins / won / had won) Japan’s Robot of the Year award recently, ………3…… (defeat / defeating / defeated) a dozen other finalists including a walking humanoid robot and a fire-fighter robot. Japan ………4……… (has been / is / was) aggressively campaigning to trumpet its robotic technology as the road to growth.

The mechanical arms that won the award ………5….. (are built / have built / was built) by Fanuc Ltd. They are already ………6…… (using / being used / been used) at food and pharmaceutical plants, where sanitation is critical and human error must ………7….. (avoid / be avoiding / be avoided). The robotic arms pick up the items using suction cups that ……8…….. (blow / blown / blows) air in and out at their tips. They then work together to neatly place them in rows in boxes. The robots have no ……9……. (expose / exposed / exposing) wiring for easy washing. They also ……10…….. (work / worked / are working) tirelessly for 24 hours straight. And they ……11…… (does not / do not / has not / have not) misbehave.

Answers

A mechanical arm that picks (1) 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt won (2) Japan’s Robot of the Year award recently, defeating (3) a dozen other finalists including a walking humanoid robot and a fire-fighter robot. Japan has been (4) aggressively campaigning to trumpet its robotic technology as the road to growth.

The mechanical arms that won the award are built (5) by Fanuc Ltd. They are already being used (6) at food and pharmaceutical plants, where sanitation is critical and human error must be avoided (7). The robotic arms pick up the items using suction cups that blow (8) air in and out at their tips. They then work together to neatly place them in rows in boxes. The robots have no exposed (9) wiring for easy washing. They also work tirelessly for 24 hours straight. And they don’t (10) misbehave.